the hurricane left a trail of destructionel huracán dejó una estela de estragos;the murderer left a trail of cluesel asesino dejó un reguero de pistas;he left a trail of wet footprints all through the housedejó pisadas húmedas por toda la casa

everywhere in the house was a sticky trail of orange juiceto leave sth [in] one's trailmost pop stars leave a wake of bitterness in their trailthe men marched down the slope, leaving crushed paths of rye or wheat in their trail

2(track)(left by animal, person)rastro (m);pista (f)

he followed their trails carefullythe couple were determined to keep the wedding private and laid false trails for photographersthe couple laid false trails for photographersfollowing the trail of a boarsaboteurs sprayed dogs with chemicals to put them off the trail of a fox

to be on sb's trailseguir la pista a algn

police were soon on his traila newspaper was on the trail of the story

the police are hard or hot on his trailla policía le sigue de cerca or está sobre su pista

to be [hard] [hot] on the trail of sth/sba burglar had police hot on his trail after a gems raiddoctors are hot on the trail of a cure for Louise's foot mysteryI'd been digging there for three months and was hot on the trail, beginning to find bits of buried treasure

to pick up sb's traildar con algn

they soon picked up her trail, and from then on her private life was effectively overto [put] [set] sb on sb's trailafter her husband disappeared she put a private detective on his traila CB radio secret code put police on the trail of a kidnapped taxi driver yesterdaya couple of clues that later set him on her trail

we managed to throw or put them off our trailconseguimos despistarlos

to [throw] [put] sb off one's/the trailwe went a different route every day to put them off our trailthe chatty, insouciant tone of his summertime letters was still precisely that of those he had written as a Harvard undergraduate to throw his mother off the trail of the young women in whom he was then interestedSABOTEURS sprayed 28 dogs with chemicals to put them off the trail of a foxit was much wiser to use different vehicles and to change as often as safely possible within the sector so as to throw the Chinese or any informers off our trail

3(path)camino (m);sendero (m)

he was following a broad trail through the treeshe went missing on a mountain traila large area of woodland, with hiking and walking trailshe followed the hippy trail overland to Nepal

tourist trailruta (f) turística

you should take in Hemingway's famous house before hitting the tourist trail which includes salvaged treasure in Mel Fisher's Museum, the Aquarium, the Glass Bottom Boat and the numerous fascinating small shops down Duval Streetthe usual tourist trail through Peru and Bolivia includes Cuzco, Macchu Picchu and Lake Titicacato [blaze] a/the trailshe helped blaze a trail for realistic movie depictions of blacksSINGING fireman Simon Foster has blazed a trail to top billing in a West End showVolkswagen's chairman, said the company wanted to blaze a trail in the eastern German economy and help to revive the traditionally strong car industry of Saxonysurgeons have blazed the trail in the treatment of bomb victims

he glanced over his shoulder; the man was still trailing hima police car trailed the truck through BirminghamI trailed her to a shop in Birmingham

4(lag behind)ir rezagado con respecto a;ir a la zaga de

the President trails his opponent in opinion pollsel Presidente va rezagado con respecto a or va a la zaga de su adversario en las encuestas de opinión;they are trailing the leaders by just two pointslos líderes solo les llevan or sacan dos puntos de ventaja

behind him is the usual gaggle of drivers who have trailed him all seasontrain ivy by trailing the plant around a wire spiralit is a strong grower trailed along a fence or wirethey trailed the boat to the coast for the weekendtheir previously trailed live TV appearance

he trailed through the wet Manhattan streetsthe small boy trailed behind his fathereverywhere there are urchin kids hassling or just trailing alongshe's not `trailing along'- I asked her to come with me

he continues to trail in the pollsthe defending champions were trailing 10-5 at half-time on SaturdayRoss Perot trails with 14 percentto trail [in] (last)I trailed in last behind Rodrigo De Trianathe pre-race favourite trailed in last

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